ICF Pittsburgh

RaeNotes for Coaches
2024-04-24 12:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | ICF Pittsburgh Webinar
by Andrew Lee and Tatiana Lykova
How to use RaeNotes for professional coach development and mentor coaching.
Participants will gain a comprehensive overview of RaeNotes, including how its AI-driven transcription and in-built ICF assessment tool can transform sessions review and aid in self-reflection.
In this webinar we will:

Navigating the RaeNotes Platform: Learn how to navigate through a coaching transcript, capturing all the ICF Core Competencies, PCC Markers, and ACC/MCC BARS.
Enhancing Self-Assessment Practices:Discover how RaeNotes can be an invaluable tool for cultivating a coaching mindset, fostering self-awareness, and further enhancing your skills as a developing coach.
Utilizing RaeNotes for accredited programs: From session transcription to exporting pre-filled evaluation forms aligned with ICF and other standards.
Exploring Best Practices: How coaches utilize RaeNotes, with examples and testimonials from experienced coaches who have successfully integrated RaeNotes into their practice.

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The Role of Coaching in Fostering Awareness and Challenging Automatic Negative Thought Patterns
2024-04-17 12:00 - 13:30 | ICF Pittsburgh Webinar
by Rosemary Hanrahan MD, MPH, PCC
CCEs: 1.5 (1.0 core / 0.5 resource)

Almost everyone experiences automatic negative thoughts such as catastrophizing, generalizing and labelling. These unhelpful cognitive distortions tend to be more common during times of stress, and can negatively impact behaviors, life satisfaction and relationships.
This interactive Webinar will explore the types of automatic thoughts, the neurophysiology associated with these thought patterns, and will offer tools that can be used in coaching to help clients challenge and replace unhelpful thoughts with more realistic and positive ones.
In this webinar we will:

Identify types of negative thought patterns that emerge in coaching conversations.
Discuss the root of these thought patterns, also known as cognitive distortions, and the impact on feelings, behaviors and outcomes.
Explore tools that will help clients gain awareness of unhelpful thought patterns, challenge them and replace them with more positive and realistic ones.

Participants will be able to:

Recognize when client may be experiencing negative automatic negative thought patterns.
Gain confidence in offering clients tools to challenge and replace negative thought patterns.
In small group interactive sessions, gain experience using a tool.
In small group interactive sessions, gain deeper learning from lived experiences by discussing coaches’ experiences with this topic, either personal or with clients.

Speaker: Rosemary Hanrahan MD, MPH, PCC is a physician, professional coach and nonprofit specialist who is committed to lifelong learning and she is passionate about creating facilitated learning experiences for others. Whether the topic is holistic stress management, strengths-based leadership or thriving through change, Rosemary enjoys the positive energy and insights that evolve when individuals share knowledge, best practices and lived experiences.
For over two decades, Rosemary has been facilitating workshops and training for community groups, family caregivers, healthcare professionals, university faculty, and professional coaches. She has also worked with nonprofit organizations in strategic visioning and planning and has facilitated focus groups.
REGISTRATION
ICF Pittsburgh Member/Affiliate – $0
ICF Global Affiliate Chapters – $15
Non-members – $25
Recording only – $25

The Neuroscience of Coaching - Why Coaching works
2024-03-06 12:00 - 13:30 | ICF Pittsburgh Webinar
by Ursula Pottinga, CPCC, PCC, MNTC
12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
CCEs: 1.5 (1.0 core / 0.5 resource)

In this lively, inter-active webinar we will explore the neuroscience rationale WHY coaching works and address three main challenges that our clients want to address: stress, making changes and the balance between being and doing.
Coaches and our clients have this powerful piece of equipment in our heads and getting a bit of a User’s Manual can help us understand why coaching works. When we provide a scientifically-based rationale, clients listen and engage more readily. When clients engage, we can go further and deeper with the coaching, thus impacting both the client and their organization more profoundly.
In this webinar we will gain knowledge on:

Understanding the science of stress: How to manage stress levels in our client’s lives.
Diving into the connection of neuroplasticity and coaching: Why change is hard and uncomfortable and how to make these changes “stick”.
Exploring two neural networks that help us understand the tuck and pull of “being and doing”.

Coaches will be able to:

Work more effectively with clients’ stress levels using the Goldilocks of the brain tool.
Will be able to explain and normalize clients’ struggle with any type of change and support them using one or more of the Seven Factors to neuroplasticity concept.
Demystify clients’ viewpoint that doing doing doing (Task network) is the effective way of working and showing them that the networks of the brain (Task and Dream Networks) need to work in harmony for best results.

Speaker: Ursula Pottinga, CPCC, PCC, MNTC is the co-founder of BEabove Leadership and is the co-developer/leader of its ground breaking training program for advanced coaches: Neuroscience, Consciousness and Transformational Coaching.
Ursula also has her own consulting and coaching company, Profound Growth. In this capacity she supports highly successful leaders break out of patterns that have held them back from claiming the best version of themselves, impacting culture, relationships and creating new paths forward. She speaks and coaches internationally and has co-authored a number of books. She is the co-author of The Guide to Getting It: Remarkable Management Skills, Create a New Normal and the spiritual journal: Universal Intentions.
REGISTRTION
ICF Pittsburgh Member/Affiliate – $0
ICF Global Affiliate Chapters – $15
Non-members – $25
Recording only – $25

GETTING MORE YES’s: How To Navigate The Sales Conversation
2024-02-07 18:00 - 19:00 | ICF Pittsburgh Webinar
by Laura Berman Fortgang, MCC
6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
CCEs: 1.0 resource

We love what we do. We start out with the best of intentions, and then, we are faced with the realities of finding and keeping clients. How do you do that and eventually, have folks coming to you with less effort on your part? You become comfortable with selling.
Join Laura to glean the mindset, action and strategy needed to go from tolerating sales conversations to welcoming them because you find out they’re not about selling at all. They’re about serving!
Discover how to make that shift through the five steps to a consultation and become masterful at overcoming objections. This presentation will show you how to hear more YES’s.
As a result of this presentation, participants:

Will shift their mindset to be bolder in their treatment of their work as a business.
Will understand how to authentically increase their income and impact, and how to help their small business clients do the same.
Will have a five-step template to a solid sales conversation and tips for overcoming the client’s propensity to say NO.

Expected outcomes for participants:

More and better clients
More ease with sales
Higher revenues

Speaker: Laura Berman Fortgang, MCC is an award-winning coach known internationally as a pioneer in the personal coaching field. Laura is also a best-selling author, sought-after speaker, TV personality (Oprah and All National Morning Shows), corporate spokesperson, interfaith minister and performer. Her TedX talk currently boasts over 1.9 million views.
Laura’s five books are published in 13 languages. She has addressed audiences around the world on topics such as Reinvention, Career Satisfaction and Small Business as well as bringing coaching to diverse clients ranging from homemakers to celebrities and Fortune 100 companies.
Laura is known for her unique career clarity “Now What?®” methodology and her A-List Coach Business Mentoring Program.
REGISTRATION:
ICF Pittsburgh Member/Affiliate – $0
ICF Global Affiliate Chapters – $15
Non-members – $25
Recording only – $25

Create a Year You Love -- and Love Creating It!
2024-01-22 12:00 - 13:00 | ICF Pittsburgh Webinar
Use Visioning in 2024 to achieve what you really want — for yourself, your clients and your organization
by Donna R. Billings, PCC
CCEs: 1.0 (0.5 core/0.5 resource)

Don’t you think the topsy turvy year 2023 is a compelling reason to head into 2024 with all cylinders firing – with a plan/vision for taking charge of your life in a world of uncertainties and unpredictables?
Coaches: come to this presentation to experience your “best self” in 2024. As you settle into the new year, are you looking for new ideas to jumpstart and infuse a refreshed mindset into your own world as well as for your clients? What intentions have you set for yourself to make you a richer, stronger, and more self-aware individual? How are you helping your clients re-focus for a successful 2024?
Get energized as Donna shares her experiences over the past 25 years in helping her clients see their own energy shift as a result of a unique yearly visioning and intention-setting process. Learn how you, too, can bring your and your clients’ best selves into 2024 with a refreshed mindset. Discover creative ways to set goals and resolutions
Through discussion, a short case study and hands-on practice in the chat rooms, participants will walk away with:

an energy shift as you learn to experience this new year differently;
a greater awareness of the importance in setting a vision for yourself and for your clients; and
one or two practical tools to use for yourself and your clients to experience 2024 differently.

Speaker: Donna R. Billings, PCC, has transitioned through a very diverse. multi-level career, both in the corporate world and in academia. As a professionally certified coach, an author and former university faculty, she functioned as a senior level Organizational Development and Human Resource Manager; a full-time MBA assistant professor; and both adjunct faculty and consultant in the former Duquesne University’s School of Leadership and Professional Advancement. She was the architect and co-founder of Duquesne’s Professional Coach Certification Program. Donna was awarded Innovator Coach of the Year at the 2013 ICF Midwest Regional Conference for her work in developing this program.
Her coaching career has spanned more than 25 years and her client base has been diverse, from coaching new leaders from around the world as an invited participant in a joint program of the International Coach Federation and the United Nations UNICEF and World Food Programme to coaching top leaders in academia and corporate.
During her academic career, she designed and/or taught leadership, management and diversity courses in the MBA program at Chatham University. At Duquesne University’s School of Leadership and Professional Advancement, she designed and taught an on-line course called Leading and Coaching Across Generations.
Donna’s coaching certifications include CPPC through the Coach Training Institute; Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coach Federation (ICF); Behavioral Coach trained by Marshall Goldsmith. She is an authorized facilitator for Team Coaching International; trained in Organizational Relationship Systems Coaching; and a master certification trainer for the Center for Leadership Studies. She has served on the ICF Research and Education Committee; and is Past President of the ICF-Pittsburgh Coaches Association. Donna earned her Master’s Degree in Business from Robert Morris University. She is the author of the memoir/coaching book, Red and Purple Hiking Boots: An Older Woman’s Trek to “It’s Never Too Late”.
REGISTRATION
ICF Pittsburgh Member/Affiliate – $0
ICF Global Affiliate Chapters – $15
Non-members – $25
Recording only – $25

Learnings (and unlearning) on the Way to MCC
2024-01-05 12:00 - 13:00 | ICF Pittsburgh Webinar
CCEs: 1.0 (core)

by Rob Michelucci, MCC, ACTC, BBC
As professional coaches, we’re continually looking to refine and improve our coaching skillset. And, all of us have blind spots! In parallel to our skill improvement, we may have picked up some routine or even unpreferable coaching habits along the way. During this interactive, one-hour webinar, Rob Michelucci, a local Pittsburgh ICF Coach and Duquesne graduate, will share what he’s learned and unlearned on his 2023 road to earning the MCC credential. Whether you’re on your journey toward becoming or renewing an ACC, PCC, or well on your way to the MCC credential, expect to learn (or relearn) MCC-level techniques as we tap into the wisdom of our group and collectively unlearn some habits we may have picked up along the way!
In this webinar we will:

Present core skill learnings from the ten hours of MCC mentorship Rob received in 2023.
Recap some “bad habits” he had picked up over the years that he had to “unlearn” for MCC-readiness.
Tap into the wisdom of the group for more of the same.

Participants will gain knowledge on:

Learn select MCC-level coaching techniques
Unlearn less preferable habits we may have picked up along our coaching journeys
Accelerate MCC-level readiness

Speaker:
Rob Michelucci, MCC: Since earning his initial ICF graduate credential from Duquesne University in 2016, he has accumulated ~2500 hours of life, career, and executive, individual and team coaching of leaders at top global social media, financial, tech companies and more, with additional experience in LGBTQ+ coaching. In addition to his private practice, Rob currently coaches with five industry-leading platforms.
In February 2023, he earned the International Coaching Federation ACTC credential, and in September 2023, he earned both the ICF MCC and Center for Credentialing & Education BCC credentials.
Rob’s mission is to help people realize—to both come to an awareness of and to fulfill—their potential.
Registration:
ICF Pittsburgh Member/Affiliate/Premier – $0
ICF Global Affiliate Chapters – $15
Non-members – $25
Recording only – $25

Peer Networking & Fireside Chat: Ignite Your Coaching Journey with Christy Uffelman
2023-11-16 17:30 - 19:30 | The Wine Library (in the PA Market), 108 19th Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15222, United States
The Wine Library (in The PA Market)
108 19th Street,
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
The power of a peer group is undeniable. It is a brave space not only to celebrate successes, but also to share best practices, vulnerable lessons learned, and powerful accountability. And it’s an important part of our ICF Community.
Join us on Thursday, November 16th for an exclusive opportunity to network with your peers and engage in an intimate Fireside Chat with the CEO of EDGE Leadership, Pittsburgh-based group coach thought leader, and PEER Technology® founder, Christy Uffelman, BCC, MHCS.
Event Highlights:
Strategic Networking and Appetizers: Connect with fellow coaches fostering meaningful relationships within our community while enjoying a selection of appetizers from the Penn Market. – (5:30 – 6:30 PM)
(cash bar available)
Exclusive Fireside Chat with Christy Uffelman, BCC, MHCS – (6:30-7:15 PM)
This isn’t your typical keynote; it’s an interactive experience driven by YOU! Together, we’ll shape the conversation and explore topics that matter most to you as a coach or leader.
Discussion could include, but is not limited to:

Integrating group coaching for authentic connection.
Expanding your coaching impact and revenue.
Effective selling and marketing strategies.
Entrepreneurial insights, from solo-preneurship to scaling your business.
Navigating marketplace shifts and building a strong, authentic brand.

Space is limited to 60 attendees – REGISTER NOW
Registration:
ICF Pittsburgh Member – $20
Non-Member – $45

Contribute to the Conversation!
Upon registration, you will receive a link where you can share any questions you may have both for Christy AND your peers. Your queries will help shape the dialogue during the event.
About Christy Uffelman, BCC, MHCS:

Founder of EDGE Leadership
Group Coaching Thought Leader
Creator of PEER Technology®

Christy’s work centers on igniting personal growth to create more courageous and authentic leaders. She believes that WHO we are is HOW we lead.
As the Founder of EDGE Leadership, Christy spent the last 10 years amplifying organizations striving to increase inclusion, enhance connection and curate belonging, from Fortune 500 companies to Girl Scout troops!
She’s revolutionized group coaching with her PEER Technology® framework, coaching peer groups of up to 1500 people simultaneously across virtual, hybrid and in-person settings.
Additional Achievements include:

Author two books, including the Amazon #1 bestseller, “The PEER Revolution: Group Coaching that Ignites the Power of People” (2022).
One of the first 50 coaches selected globally by Dr. Brené Brown to bring vulnerability and courage building to corporations through Dare to Lead (2018).
Over 10,000 leaders worldwide have benefited from the group coaching programs at EDGE.

Learn more about Christy click here and explore her bestseller, “The PEER Revolution,” click here.
Connect with Christy on social media:
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COACHING FOR EMANCIPATION: A BASIC INTRODUCTION
2023-11-03 12:00 - 13:30 | ICF Pittsburgh Webinar
by Dr. Hany Shoukry
CCEs: 1.5 (0.5core/ 1.0 resource)

“I think of coaching as a way to change the world, one person at a time. It is true that coachees come to coaching with their deeply personal and unique stories and goals, but it is also true that their stories are woven into a much larger social fabric, with a universal scene in the background. Both coach and coachee come to the session, but never entirely on their own, the room is filled with organisational, social, and political systems that are shaping the encounter.’ Dr. Hany Shoukry, in Coaching’s Search for Meaning Coaching Perspectives, October 2021
In this session, Dr. Shoukry will help us explore how coaches can support their clients through integrating, and critically examining the interplay between the individual and their social context. The session will start with a brief overview of Dr. Shoukry’s body of work, covering: coaching as a social process and the impact of oppression.
In this webinar we will learn how:

To develop an integrative worldview of the interaction between individual and society.
To explore the implications of coaching clients using the CFE Framework.
To learn how coaching can play a role in social change.
To see coaching as a social process.

Participants will gain knowledge on:

Exploration of the interplay between coaching and the social context.
Exploration of the dynamics of coaching in oppressive social environments.
Development of a critical perspective and awareness of a social dimension that needs to be considered in the coaching process.

Speaker: Hany Shoukry, PhD is an Honorary Research Associate at Oxford Brookes University. A researcher, trainer, and practitioner of coaching, he is particularly interested in the intersection between individual and society, and in the role of coaching in social change. Hany’s research was one of the earliest calls to consider coaching from a social perspective and led to the development of the Coaching for Emancipation (CFE) framework. Hany trains and supervises coaches and human development practitioners, and offers, through Humangene.org, pro-bono coaching, particularly to clients living in oppressive conditions or belonging to socially diverse groups. Born in Egypt, he lives in the UK, and is also a senior technology leader at Sky, Europe’s largest media company.
REGISTRATION:
ICF Pittsburgh Member/Affiliate/Premier – $0
ICF Global Affiliate Chapters – $15
Non-members – $25
Recording only – $25

Invisible Power of Culture: How Cultural Dimension Can Enhance Your Coaching and Business
2023-10-24 12:00 - 13:30 | ICF Pittsburgh Webinar
by Elena Semenchuk, PCC
12:00 pm. to 1:30 p.m.
CCEs: 1.50 (0.75 core / 0.75 resource)

Join our enlightening webinar as we delve into the crucial intersection of culture and context within both coaching and the broader business landscape. As a coach, understanding and embracing the impact of culture on oneself and others is essential. Why? We’ll explore that together!
Why Culture Matters in Coaching: We will dissect why the cultural dimension has become prominent in the new ICF competencies, shedding light on how cultural awareness can enrich not only our coaching practices but our lives as well.
Exploring Cross-Cultural Coaching: Engage in an interactive and stimulating conversation on how cross-cultural coaching aligns with global trends. Discover classifications and models of culture that can enhance your coaching mindset and methodology.
Defining and Enhancing Your Cultural Reality: Assess your current cultural reality and uncover strategies to refine and elevate it. What does this mean for you and your clients?
Navigating Cultural Differences: We’ll delve into effective ways to navigate cultural variances, avoid ethnocentric pitfalls, and leverage these differences to benefit both your coaching practice and your personal growth.
Whether you’re a seasoned coach or new to the field, understanding the dynamics of culture is vital in today’s globalized world. Don’t miss this opportunity to deepen your cultural acumen and enrich your coaching practice!
Learning Objectives for this webinar are:

Understanding culture and why it is essential in coaching and business.
Cross-cultural coaching as a response to world trends.
How updated ICF competencies respond to the necessity of being aware of cultural differences.

Expected Outcomes for Participants are:

Cultural dimension in coaching – classifications and models to work with.
Defining your current cultural reality and finding ways to enhance it.
How to deal with cultural differences – avoiding ethnocentric pitfalls to leverage differences.

Elena Semenchuk, PCC ICF, is a renowned entrepreneur, cross-cultural expert, and business coach who specializes in guiding leaders to reach unprecedented heights in both life and business during uncertain times. With a background that spans 15 years in the corporate world, Elena’s experience is rich and diverse, having worked in various fields and businesses across cultures in Ukraine, Spain, and Poland.
Having lived in three EU countries over the course of nine years, Elena’s global perspective is further enriched by her proficiency in six languages. Her keen understanding of cultural nuances makes her an invaluable asset in cross-cultural coaching.
In addition to her entrepreneurial endeavors, Elena serves as a Business and Executive coach and Mentor Coach, offering tailored support to professionals striving for excellence. Her leadership is also evident in her role as the Head of the Committee for Professional Development at ICF Ukraine, where she works diligently to advance the coaching profession.
Elena holds a Master’s degree in International Economics, which underpins her sophisticated approach to business coaching. Her unique blend of academic knowledge, cultural insight, and corporate experience equips her to offer transformative coaching that resonates across borders.
Whether working with individuals or organizations, Elena’s multifaceted expertise makes her a sought-after coach for those looking to thrive in today’s ever-changing global landscape.
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Applications of Polyvagal Theory in Coaching
2023-09-19 12:00 - 13:30 | ICF Pittsburgh Webinar
Michael Forlenza, PhD, MPH, PCC, TIPC
CCEs: 1.50 (0.75 core/0.75 resource)

Regardless of one’s coaching niche, coaches are being asked with greater frequency to support clients through experiences of toxic stress, burnout and even trauma. Polyvagal theory offers both a scientific understanding of the feelings of safety that give rise to connection, growth, and restoration and practical implications for coaches to both self-regulate and co-regulate with their clients. Participants will learn simple practices and techniques that can support client neurophysiological shifts from protection to connection and from surviving to thriving. This shift supports the emergence, restoration, and cultivation of resilience as a function of both connection and feelings of safety.
In this webinar participates will learn:

About the neurophysiology of feeling safe and the importance of safety to learning and growth in coaching.
About their own and others bodily and behavioral reactions to past and current experiences.
Specific breathing and movements patterns to support self-regulation.

Participants will be able to:

Recognize, regulate, and co-regulate reactions in themselves and others.
Intentionally shift their own state to support state-shifts in their clients.
Come to value the felt-sense of safety and connection as foundational to the coaching relationship.

Speaker:
Michael Forlenza is an experienced leader, international leadership consultant, and leadership development coach having worked for over a decade with both executive and emerging leaders across a wide variety of corporate and economic sectors including academic medicine and healthcare, public health, higher education, mental health care, financial services, insurance services, legal services, law enforcement, sales, government, biotechnology, engineering, management consulting, hospitality, and food service. Prior to becoming a full-time coach, consultant, and facilitator, Michael served as Assistant Dean in the School of Leadership and Professional Advancement at Duquesne University where he initiated, founded, and taught Executive Coaching in the Professional Coach Certification Program (PCCP), an International Coach Federation Accredited Coach Training Program, also having served as its Executive Director. He is currently a Senior Faculty Member and Director of Faculty Training with Lodestar Consulting and Executive Coaching where he leads and facilitates programs in Trauma-Responsive Leadership and teaches a Trauma-Mitigation Master Class for Coaches.
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ChatGPT for Coaches
2023-09-12 12:00 - 13:30 | ICF Pittsburgh Webinar
by Chuck Gohn, ACC
12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
CCEs: 1.5 (0.5 core / 1.0 resource)

This 90-minute webinar will introduce life coaches to the revolutionary AI tool, ChatGPT, and its potential applications in the coaching industry. Participants will learn how to leverage this technology to enhance their business operations (with real examples), from social media engagement and email marketing to course design and creating powerful questions.
The webinar will include but not be limited to the following key areas:

What is ChatGPT?: An introduction to ChatGPT, and its capabilities.
ChatGPT for Social Media Presence: How to use ChatGPT to create engaging social media content and connect effectively with your audience.
ChatGPT for Client Emails: Using ChatGPT to craft persuasive marketing emails and personalized follow-up messages.
ChatGPT for Course Design: Utilizing ChatGPT to brainstorm course topics and create captivating course descriptions and outlines.
ChatGPT for Powerful Questions: Using ChatGPT to Create powerful coaching questions tailored to specific sessions and client objectives.
Ethical Considerations when using ChatGPT: Ensuring compliance with the ICF Professional Code of Ethics when using ChatGPT in your marketing efforts.

Participants will gain knowledge on:

Understand the capabilities of ChatGPT and how to access and use it effectively.
Appreciate the assistance that ChatGPT can bring to the business development
Realize the value that ChatGPT can add to client relationships and coaching sessions
Be aware of the ethical considerations when using ChatGPT in their coaching business.

Chuck Gohn, ACC is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in coaching, business, non-profits, and academics. He holds an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential and serves on the board of the International Coaching Federation’s Pittsburgh Chapter. Chuck is also a Fellow Coach with BetterUp Coaching and teaches Life Coaching at Allegheny Community College.
Chuck’s academic qualifications include a Doctorate from Fuller Seminary, a Master’s from Emmanuel Seminary, and a Bachelor of Science in Business from Portland State University.
With his diverse background, Chuck is equipped to facilitate profound transformative change in individuals and groups through his coaching skills, work, and life experiences.
Chuck is the founder of Chuck Gohn Coaching (chuckgohncoaching.com), a comprehensive Learning Hub for Life Coaches that caters to both established coaches and those considering a career in coaching. Chuck is the author of ChatGPT for Life Coaches: a practical guide for enhancing your life coaching business
Registration:

How to Acquire Clients When Everyone Seems to Be a Coach
2023-08-22 12:00 - 13:00 | ICF Pittsburgh Webinar
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
CCE: 1.0 Resource
As coaches, we sometimes prefer to spend more time on refining our craft than on business development. An increased number of people entering the coaching field today calls for coaches to position their value proposition to attract the clients they want in a unique way. This webinar will provide insight into using social media posts, podcasting, online marketing platforms and video to help communicate engaging messages that stand out and engage potential clients to want to learn more about you.
Learning objectives are:

To understand the value of being a coach AND a business owner. To know the reason you coach in order to build authenticity and market yourself.
To define your ideal client so that you may speak and write specifically to them.
To differentiate your unique perspective and value proposition in an offer that speaks to the heart of your ideal client.
To put to use good online marketing platforms: LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook as well as the benefits of podcasting.
To understand how business platforms designed to help organizations build and grow their businesses can help you build a website and landing pages, streamline payments and marketing automation, and more can simplify your business with features include marketing emails, templates, and an online customer relationship management systems (CRM) can organize and grow your business.

Outcomes for attendees are:

Define your “Why?”
Define your value proposition and ideal client.
Understand how online social media platforms and a podcast can be an asset to messaging your ideal client.
Know how to deal with objections on cost, time commitment and others issues from prospective clients.
Understand the benefits and drawbacks of an online marketing platform

Speaker:
Mary Lee Gannon, ACC, CAE has a unique perspective as an ICF certified coach and a 19+ year corporate CEO, currently running a $33 million organization within a 95,000 employee company. She helps leaders be respected, advance at the executive level, and prioritize well-being, without being so busy they don’t connect with the people who matter. Her clients include leaders from Adobe, Google, Ford Motor, Amazon, The Air Force, The Pittsburgh Steelers, and many other organizations.
REGISTRATION:
ICF Pittsburgh Member/Affiliate/Premier – $0
ICF Global Affiliate Chapters – $15
Non-members – $25
Recording only – $25

“Empowered Coaching: Building Resilience and Conquering Burnout”
2023-07-19 12:00 - 13:00 | ICF Pittsburgh Webinar
CCEs: 1.0 (.75 core / .25 resource)

Join our upcoming webinar as we delve into a crucial topic that affects many coaching professionals: burnout. In this transformative session, we will explore the subtle signs and symptoms of burnout and equip coaches with effective strategies for identifying and managing this pervasive issue.
Through an interactive and engaging discussion, we will explore practical techniques for self-care that empower coaches to prioritize their well-being, foster resilience, and maintain their passion for coaching.
Discover the power of creating healthy boundaries, setting limits, and implementing self-care practices that nourish the mind, body, and spirit. Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your coaching skills and cultivate a sustainable and fulfilling career.
The focus of this webinar will be on:

Identifying and Managing Burnout in Coaching
Creating Boundaries for Burnout Prevention
Building Resilience for Coaches
Learning tips and tools for Preventing Burnout

Participants will:

Be able to recognize the signs of burnout in themselves and others.
Learn techniques for managing stress and avoiding burnout
Develop a personalized self-care plan to implement in their coaching practice.
Be able to identify areas where they need to set boundaries to prevent burnout.

Speaker:
Jane Song, ACC is a therapist with a masters degree in Mental Health Counseling from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and certification as an ACC life coach. She is also equipped to help clients navigate the emotional and psychological aspects of burnout, such as anxiety, depression, and feelings of overwhelm. With her training, she provides a safe and supportive environment where clients can heal and regain a sense of control over their lives.
As a wellbeing and burnout coach, consultant, and therapist, Jane is committed to helping individuals and corporations overcome the physical and emotional exhaustion that comes with burnout. With extensive experience in guiding clients through challenging times and supporting their journey towards a healthier, more balanced lifestyle, she has developed a deep understanding of how to help clients cultivate a more sustainable and fulfilling life. Through a collaborative and empowering relationship, she works together with clients to create a plan for sustainable wellbeing that is tailored to their unique needs.
Overall, Jane’s goal as a burnout consultant, therapist, and life coach is to help clients achieve their personal and professional goals while prioritizing their physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing. She is dedicated to empowering clients to live their best lives by addressing all aspects of burnout, and her expertise allows her to provide effective guidance and support.
REGISTRATION:
ICF Pittsburgh Member/Affiliate/Premier – $0
ICF Global Affiliate Chapters – $15
Non-members – $25
Recording only – $25

Beyond the Questions – Creativity in Coaching
2023-06-26 18:00 - 19:30 | ICF Pittsburgh Webinar
Kerry Donati, ACC
CCEs: 1.50 (0.75 core/ 0.75 resource)
Interactive discussion on the use of existing tools and techniques, putting your own creative spin on them, and how each of us has utilized creativity in our own coaching and its impact on us as coaches, and our clients. We will discuss the benefits of these approaches and how they support several Core Competencies, including: 2. Embodies a Coaching Mindset, 3. Establishes and Maintains Agreements, 4. Cultivates Trust and Safety, 7. Evokes Awareness, and 8. Facilitates Client Growth.
In this webinar attendees will have:

An enhanced spectrum of coaching approaches from which to choose in evoking awareness in the coach/client interaction.
A broader sense of how to strengthen the trust and bond in a coach/client relationship.
Developed insights, ideas, and questions about the tools and techniques reviewed to further their individual understanding about them and their potential in supporting additional Core Competencies.
Expanded their coaching mindset to allow their own creativity and intuition to evoke awareness in their clients and enhance the coach/client relationship.

Attendees will:

Demonstrate using the tools and techniques reviewed in the presentation to evoke awareness in the coach/client interaction.
Describe their learnings/insights about the tools and techniques presented to them.
Generate ideas about how to use the tools and techniques presented in their own coaching.
Share their creative insights and ideas with the coaching community.

Speaker:
Kerry Donati, ACC is a graduate of the Duquesne Professional Coaching Certification Program working with clients in her private practice. She serves the coaching community as a training developer/instructor, a mentor participant for the Leadership and Life Coaching for Religious Women and an Observer Participant for the Duquesne University PCCP. Working in the information technology space as a consultant, trainer, and program manager for over 23 years, Kerry has worked to create collective mindset tuned to possibility and mutual respect and appreciation among coworkers and teams to generate a safe space for true and productive communication.
REGISTRATION BELOW:

Future Leadership: To Be a Voice, Not an Echo
2023-05-11 12:00 - 13:00 | ICF Pittsburgh Webinar
CCEs: 1.0 Resource
“I am not what happened to me. I am who I choose to be.” These words became my mantra when the most terrible thing in my life occurred – a brutal war where countless people perished. During this war, my family lost two loved ones: a young 25-year-old nephew, who was killed by Russian soldiers, and the grandfather of my sons, who passed away due to a broken heart.
Despite the devastation, I managed to save my children’s lives and create a new reality for them in Germany, starting life from scratch in a new country. Through the pain and suffering, I underwent my own rebirth and became a source of support for others. As a coach, I took responsibility in my profession and became the fourth President of ICF Ukraine. Leading during wartime was challenging, and I had no prior experience to rely on.
In this webinar, I will share my leadership journey, from losing everything in one day due to war to becoming the leader of a global professional organization in just eight months. I will discuss how I not only preserved the organization during wartime but also developed it, supported colleagues, helped them grow, and implemented significant social projects for Ukrainian leaders. Join me to hear about my story of resilience, leadership, and hope in the face of adversity.
Learning objectives are:

The organization is a mirror of the leader’s personality. What should be the leader of the future?
The scale of the organization and projects is the scale of the leader’s mind: 5 tips for effective leadership in conditions of complete uncertainty.
Leader identity map. How to combine the spiritual and social goals of a leader? Author’s model.

Outcomes for attendees are:

Participants will understand that the greatest challenges in life bring growth and development.
Participants will be convinced that big catastrophes in a person’s life make a request not for transformation, but for transition. How is transformation different from transition?
Participants will understand how to develop their potential to hear their true voice. How to sound with your own voice, and not be a repeater of other people’s thoughts and worldview?

Speaker:
Alina Sviatnenko, PCC. Executive coach | PCC ICF | Entrepreneur | Co-founder TED Coaching Agency | L&D advisor| Master’s degree – in Economics (2007, Kyiv).
My expertise: Development of leadership competencies, Adaptation in a period of change, Emotional development intelligence, work with fears and resistances, Work with beliefs and ineffective models behavior, Support during a crisis, crisis counseling, Preparing HiPo for management positions.
As executive coach, I am a partner for leaders and management teams in development high-performing cultures that fuel business growth having 15 years leadership experience in local and international companies (managerial financial positions). I help leaders to develop the skills, mindset and behavior they need to be effective in their professional and personal life.
Since November 2022 I have been President of ICF Ukraine. (ICF Ukraine is the only world-wide chapter that has operated for 14 months in a full-scale war.) My leadership role today is a great personal and professional challenge. My professional challenge is to support myself in conditions of high uncertainty, and to be a support for others: for the team, colleagues, and clients in the big projects that we initiate. As the leader of the professional community, which unites more than 360 coaches, I am responsible in partnership with my colleagues for sustainable growth of organization and the development of coaching profession in Ukraine in the war conditions. The Board members, as well as the members of the chapter, are living now in different countries, so we work remotely from different parts all over the world. We ensure launch of new large-scale coaching projects to support Ukrainian leaders. These projects are important and needed in Ukraine more than ever.
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A Short Story on Ethics for Coaches
2023-05-09 18:00 - 19:30 | ICF Pittsburgh Webinar
by Jane Rahenkamp, PCC
CCEs: 1.5 Core

During this webinar we will discuss the ICF Code of Ethics.
In this webinar we will:

Review the components of the ICF Code of Ethics, with focus on those that may create the biggest challenge in your coaching.
Identify and define ethical issues and dilemmas in coaching.
Explore ethical decision-making models to address any issues/dilemmas that may arise in your practice.

Participants will gain:

Better understand the components of the ICF Code of Ethics
Identify ethical issues and dilemmas in your own coaching
Utilize an ethical decision-making model to address an ethical dilemma

Speaker:
Jane Rahenkamp, PCC is a Professional Certified Coach and a 2015 graduate of Duquesne University’s Professional Coaching Certification program; an International Coach Federation (ICF) accredited program. She also holds a Master’s of Science degree in Leadership and Business Ethics from Duquesne University, where she currently teaches as an Adjunct Professor. Jane is currently a Distinguished Fellow Coach for Better Up where she coaches employees at all levels of organizations to become better leaders and thrive in their personal and professional lives.
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ADAPT™ Career Coaching
2023-04-14 12:00 - 13:30 | ICF Pittsburgh Webinar
by Steve Wendell
CCEs: 1.50 (0.75 Core / 0.75 Resource)

The 21st century career landscape continues to evolve, providing new opportunities and challenges. Models and theories such as Protean perspective, Boundaryless, Planned Happenstance, and Career Adaptability exemplify areas where career coaching can aid clients in leveraging this new landscape optimally. The ADAPT Career Coaching represents a meta-view or framework as a “dance floor” for the coach and client.
This webinar aims to expand the coaches understanding of, and ability to coach clients on:

The 21st century career landscape
Foundational Capacities that support career and professional development
How to “dance” with the clients from different entry points to career coaching
How to coach clients to better align career identity and various roles with greater authenticity

Speaker:
Dr. Wendell is an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology. During his postdoctoral research at the University of Pittsburgh he co-founded the University of Pittsburgh Postdoctoral Association and served on the first Board of Directors for the National Postdoctoral Association. In 2012, he trained as a professional coach and created the coaching based Foundations of Successful Career Planning and Development courses for graduate students and postdocs. Steve co-authored book chapters related to postdoctoral training, The Postdoc Landscape: The Invisible Scholars, and coaching, Professional Coaching: Principles and Practice. He also provides ongoing education to coaches through the ADAPT Career Coaching elective course at Duquesne University (PCCP). Steve leverages his experience to provide coaching programs for funded projects, nationally and locally, that support diversity in the STEM workforce, mentor training, career adaptability, physician-scientist resilience, and academic leadership. He also leads the multifaceted coaching and mentoring program in the Biomedical Masters Program (BMP).

New Story Now: 5 Proven Steps to Turn Your Painful Challenges into Powerful Choices
2023-03-31 12:00 - 13:30 | ICF Pittsburgh Webinar
by Larysa Homans
CCEs 1.50 (0.75 Core / 0.75 Resource)

This is the Master Class for coaches, solo-professionals, leaders in companies and organizations, who are committed to strengthening their communication mastery, creating trustworthy cooperation, and catalyzing important changes in their personal and professional life, career and business, community, and society. This master class will help you learning more how to use narrative approaches and reflective tools to catalyze and create desired changes in life and business.
During this interactive learning event we will:

review the multilevel roles of stories we use for a variety of purposes,
uncover the hidden power of changes, that every-day stories can hold for us and others, and
examine how to identify the unique shift, which can transform the every-day story into the transformational journey for yourself, your team, or your community.

In this conversational space you will be invited to learn and practice how to:

Seeing your stories through different angles – What kind of old stories might limit you and what are your future-forward stories?
Identifying the core stories for your on-going communications – “I-AM-Story”, “What-Do-I-DO-Story”, “My-VISION-Story”, “My-VALUES-Stories”, “My-UPs-and-DOWNs-Stories”
Design your unique Story Portfolio as the coaches, solo-professionals, and leaders
Learn 5C Story Model* for creating Transformational Stories developed by Larysa Homans (Larysa Homans uses this model in coaching conversations, teaching leadership and business communications, designing and implementing tailor-made programs for leaders in business and non-profit sectors).

Speaker: Larysa Homans, a Certified Integrative/Certified Story Coach, mentor, strategic communication expert and business advisor, she helps soul-driven leaders, executives, and professionals define and design, execute and expand their new experiences, their NEW STORIES – in career, in business, in life. Very often these stories are emerging as the results of strong challenges and changes.
Larysa has combined 40+ years of interrelated experience as a journalist, business communication expert in many international projects and organizations in Ukraine and other countries, and business educator with her professional path in transformational story designing, coaching, and mentoring. Larysa offers a unique approach, integrative models and tools facilitating transformational journeys of her clients in corporate and non-profit sectors.
As the Past President of ICF Ukraine Charter Chapter (2019-2020), Larysa continues to co-lead ICF Ukraine’s international partnership initiatives. In November 2022 Larysa established Coaching Today, the first media & news platform in Ukraine about professional coaching.
She holds two master’s degrees: one in psychology (2002) and one in journalism (1986), obtained at Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University. Larysa loves learning constantly, and always looking for new ways to create new stories, lead new changes, and make new impact.
Larysa lives in two countries – Ukraine and the United States and works globally.
REGISTRATION:
ICF Pittsburgh Member/Affiliate/Premier – $0
ICF Global Affiliate Chapters – $15
Non-members – $25
Recording only – $25

Coaching “in the Wild”: Exploring the Wilderness Metaphor and Coaching through Fear
2023-03-14 18:30 - 19:30 | ICF Pittsburgh Webinar
Amy Camp
CCEs 1.0 (core 0.5/resource 0.5)
This interactive session will explore the wilderness metaphor and its potential applications to coaching. Both a metaphor for the unknown and a real-life source of fear, the understanding the wilderness concept can be useful in coaching. This session will cover how the idea of wilderness has been used historically, in popular culture, and by some of our great leaders. The session will also address the fear of the unknown (our own and our clients’) and ideas for working through fear.
In this webinar participants will learn:

How wilderness has been used as a metaphor for the unknown and the origins of this association.
How to recognize and work with fear within a coaching relationship.
Other associations for “wilderness” and explore as a group how to apply them.

Webinar take aways are:

Participants will deepen their thinking about the relationship between coaching and nature.
Participants will co-create strategies for working with fear (our own and our clients’).
Participants will improve their ability to maintain a coaching mindset regardless of their personal fears or those of their clients.

Speaker: Amy Camp received her Professional Coach certification through Duquesne University in 2013 and her ACC credential from the ICF in 2018. Through her business, Cycle Forward, Amy has offered nature-based coaching held outside on trails, outdoor programs and retreats, and professional consulting services related to trails and recreation. She is currently focusing on her consulting services and is not offering coaching at this time. Nevertheless, she is committed to the ICF Pittsburgh community and is eager to engage her fellow coaches in discussing this topic. Amy served on the board of ICF Pittsburgh from 2017-2018.
REGISTRATION:
ICF Pittsburgh Member/Affiliate/Premier – $0
ICF Global Affiliate Chapters – $15
Non-members – $25
Recording only – $25

Dealing with Uncertainty: Creative Thinking for Making Good Decisions
2023-02-28 12:00 - 13:30 | ICF Pittsburgh Webinar
by Olya Vasylets, ACC
CCEs 1.5 (core 1.0/resource 0.5)
During this webinar we will talk about uncertainty and its different levels. We will also consider what the uncertainty is in sense of its perception. And how to deal with it using creative thinking approach tools. Webinar includes valuable information, interesting stories and useful practical tools with discussion and sharing new-gained experience.
In this webinar we will:

Find out more about uncertainty through real cases.
Learn how uncertainty, resilience and creative thinking approach are connected and how this connection may be seen, and thereby used in different areas of life and work.
Master creative thinking tools in practice to use them further.

Participants will gain knowledge on:

Understanding how to cope with challenges of uncertainty by creating a new vision.
Gain experience of using creative thinking tools in practice.
Feel more empowered to face with difficulties and problems and to design new solutions

Olya Vasylets, ACC is an ICF coach, translator, entrepreneur and founder of Creative Resilience Coach for Business and Non-Profit Organizations Leaders. She has a Master’s Degree in International Economics. Olya has work experience as an import and export manager, plus launching small businesses in the branch of clothes manufacturing. She is currently coaching and training business leaders. Olya is the Winner of the 2021 Coach Volunteer Award.
REGISTRATION

ICF Pittsburgh Member/Affiliate/Premier – $0
ICF Global Affiliate Chapters – $15
Non-members – $25
Recording only – $25

Mastering the Stages of Change
2023-02-15 12:00 - 13:30 | ICF Pittsburgh Webinar
Sidrah Mohyuddin, BDS, ACC, NBC-HWC
CCEs 1.5 (core)

This presentation creates awareness on the Transtheoretical model of behavior change developed by Dr. Prochaska and his associates. It is designed to help you recognize your client’s stage of change from pre-contemplation to maintenance. We will discuss the characteristics of the stages of change and the communication guidelines coaches can use for each stage of change. Learn tailored messages versus a one size fits all approach.
In this webinar we will:

Recognize the stages of change.
Identify characteristics of each stage of change.
Identify the processes or how of change.

Participants will gain knowledge on:

Assessing your client’s motivational readiness.
Learn Communication guidelines for each stage of change.
Understanding the processes of change.

Speaker: Sidrah Mohyuddin, ACC is the president and founder of Renewed Realm LLC, a coaching practice specializing in life, career and health & wellness coaching. She has a bachelors in dental surgery and is an associate certified coach through ICF as well as a national board certified health and wellness coach. Sidrah enjoys working closely with clients in developing a well-rounded approach to life in order to embrace success, good health and happiness.
REGISTRATION:

ICF Pittsburgh Member/Affiliate/Premier – $0
ICF Global Affiliate Chapters – $15
Non-members – $25
Recording only – $25

The Art of Beginning Again
2023-01-18 18:00 - 19:30 | ICF Pittsburgh Webinar
Chris Thyberg, ACC
CCEs 1.5 (core 1.0/resource 0.5)
To have a coaching mindset requires that we are always beginners, but what does that really mean in practice? Through an interactive co-learning experience, we will raise awareness of some common stumbles and unexpected opportunities to begin again that come up repeatedly in our coaching, including micro-adjustments in a session, macro-pivots across an engagement, and mega-restarts as we build our practices.
After awareness comes action and we will explore how to increase our capacities to choose new options with an emerging situation that is inviting us to Begin Again. We never are complete when it comes to “finding what is ours to do,” “getting out of our own way,” “losing presence,” or a host of other dings in our greatness as coaches and growing humans. With grace, we are always beginners, beginning again together.
In this webinar we will:

Explore three “buckets” of Begin Again signals:

Getting in our own way
Doing what’s not ours to do and missing what is ours to do
Falling out of presence

Learn from each other’s experiences with a past Begin Again moment, how we caught it, and what we did to change course.
Explore where a Begin Again opportunity is emerging and set an intention to choose a new practice to deal with this next restart more skillfully and effectively

Participants will leave this workshop energized to:
(1) Clarify and change our relationship to a current opportunity to drop into Begin Again.
(2) Harness that energy to design and commit to skillful practices of noticing where/when we need to begin again, and how to do so gracefully in service to our clients and the world.
(3) Build relationships of mutual support as colleagues intent on continuing growth. This can include connecting with a coach of our own.
Speaker: Chris Thyberg, ACC is Founder and Principal of The Serving Way. After 30- plus years in higher education and international nonprofits serving C-suite executives as in-house strategist and change-agent, Chris knows that today’s leaders are under immense pressure to excel individually and grow their teams to deliver greater performance. Certified from Georgetown University and ICF-credentialed, his broad expertise in leadership development serves emerging and experienced leaders in all sectors when they’ve run up against their growth edges. Using an eclectic approach that includes a variety of assessments, Chris draws out from leaders their inherent capacities to lead themselves well and lead others from the unique genius of who they are as the leaders they are called to be. Chris counts it a great blessing to have traveled extensively for professional and personal growth, having visited Africa, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
REGISTRATION:
ICF Pittsburgh Member/Affiliate/Premier – $0
ICF Global Affiliate Chapters – $15
Non-members – $25
Recording only – $25

ICF Pittsburgh Holiday Social
2022-12-13 16:30 - 20:00 | Dave & Busters, 180 E Waterfront Drive, Homestead, PA, 15120, United States
Dave & Buster’s
180 E Waterfront Drive
Homestead, PA 15120
Time: 4:30-8:00 pm

Join us for food, fun and fellowship!
Cash Bar

Come celebrate our individual and collective successes!
Explore the benefits of active membership in ICF Pittsburgh.
Bring your ideas and input for future programs.

REGISTRATION requested by December 4, 2022.

Members and Guests – Free

ESCAPING THE WAR IN UKRAINE: 7 PERSONAL RESILIENCE LESSONS
2022-11-08 12:00 - 13:30 | ICF Pittsburgh Webinar
CCEs: 1.5 (0.5 Core/1.0 Resource)
All of us face challenges and losses in life. My family left everything behind in (our people, property, and businesses), to escape the horrible war of Russia over Ukraine and to protect our 3 children.
In this webinar I will share our story of escape from Ukraine, coming to the United States to start all over again, and 7 personal lessons on Resilience that I took from this experience. Please join me in exploring how we can all enhance resilience in our personal lives, our teams and our clients!
Learning Objectives:

Introduce the SOURCE model of resilience
Apply the SOURCE model to the challenges the participants experience
Explore how a coach can bring more resilience to individuals, families, and businesses

In this webinar Participants:

Will feel more hope and in control of circumstances in their life
Will realize that losses and challenges are the beginning and not the end (even if it is difficult to believe)
Will know and apply the SOURCE model of resilience to their challenges

Speaker: Olga Panivnyk is the Founder of BeChange, an Executive and Business Coach, Speaker, and Human Capital Executive with 25 years of experience in HR, Finance, M&A, and Change Management in global FMCG, Manufacturing, and Technology businesses. She is a resilient Ukrainian who has recently started the North American branch of her coaching and consulting business out of the Pittsburgh Metropolitan area.
She is passionate about partnering with her clients in bringing to the world the change they want to see, while maintaining their well-being and the well-being of their families, even at times of adversity like war. She is also recognized for empowering female leaders, i.e., team members and coaching clients, to thrive in their leadership roles.
Being a woman of faith, Olga is devoted to giving back to the community as a volunteer. Some of her volunteer highlights include helping to establish the International Coaching Federation chapter in Ukraine in 2017 and serving as Vice President and Treasurer of the ICF Ukraine Board in 2019-2020. When the war in Ukraine started in February 2022, she began raising funds for Solidarity Fund in support of Ukraine with the Knights of Columbus and served as an interpreter for the Trauma Resource Institute in their Ukrainian Humanitarian Resiliency Project.
Olga is a renowned public speaker on topics of inclusion and belonging and growing talent while growing businesses. She is also the author of the #leadershipkitchen, a weekly blog that talks about leadership in a human way.
REGISTRATION:
ICF Pittsburgh Member/Affiliate/Premier – $0
ICF Global Affiliate Chapters – $15
Non-members – $25
Recording only – $25

Trauma-Informed Coaching: Necessary, Better, and *NOT* about Trauma
2022-10-04 18:30 - 20:00 | ICF Pittsburgh Webinar
by
Susana Rinderle, MA, PCC
6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
CCEs: 1.5 (1.0 Core / 0.5 Resource)
Do you find your clients struggling in new ways with work and life? Are your traditional techniques and tools not working anymore?
Are your clients ghosting you? Do you want to coach more clients of color, or other marginalized identities?
It may be that a trauma informed approach to coaching is what you need. Trauma goes beyond a single horrific event that occurred in the past – it also includes unrelenting stress like unrealistic workplace expectations, or slow burns like an ongoing pandemic. The truth is everyone has some level of trauma – including your c-suite clients. Trauma informed coaching is better coaching – for everyone. It’s a must have in 2022 and beyond!
By the end of this 1.5 hour session, participants will:

Understand the reality of what trauma is and where it lives
Learn how trauma and chronic stress show up in coaching sessions and clients’ lives
Gain clarity about how to be more trauma-informed (what to know and what to do)
Obtain 1-2 practical tools for regulating their own nervous system as coaches.

Speaker:
Susana Rinderle, MA, PCC is a writer, poet, transformational life & leadership coach, and trauma-informed resilience practitioner. Her first career was in diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI), and leadership development, where she spent nearly 30 years garnering meaningful results for employers and clients as an internal subject matter expert, organizational leader, and external consultant. She worked across the U.S. and abroad in multiple sectors including nonprofit, corporate, healthcare, education and government.
Susana is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), ICF Mentor Coach, and Certified Facilitator of The Resilience Toolkit. She held a university position in Guadalajara, Mexico, and was the co-founder and first Manager of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion for University of New Mexico Hospitals. For twenty years, she was the President of Susana Rinderle Consulting, LLC, and is a former Principal Consultant for Korn Ferry in the leadership development practice. Susana is a former TEDx speaker, and her articles have appeared in Workforce Magazine, The Huffington Post, TLNT.com, ERE.net, Diversity Executive, American Diversity Report, Training Magazine, and Medium as well as academic journals.

"Exploring Microaggressions"
2022-09-27 18:30 - 20:00 | ICF Pittsburgh Webinar
Faciliated by
Pamelia Robinson, ACC
Dr. Erroline Williams, PCC
Rodney Austin
CCEs: 1.5 (1.0 Core/ 0.5 Resource)
In this session we will explore the:

Concepts of Microinsult; Microassault; and Microinvalidation as well as
Revisit different types of microaggression and their impact on those receiving them.

We will provide safe-space breakout sessions for personal sharing and learning.
This will be a fast paced, interactive session that will bring you new insights and
tools to better manage your relationships with colleagues, family, friends and new
acquaintances!
This webinar is free to everyone.
To register email: roberta@pittsburghcoaches.com

Two Secret Listening Strategies to Enhance Coaches’ Active Listening
2022-08-09 12:00 - 13:30 | ICF Pittsburgh Webinar
by
Laura Janusik, PhD, MBA, MA
CCEs: 1.5 Core
Active listening often is hailed as the hallmark of listening, but active listening isn’t enough. Listening is a cognitive activity and recent research (Bodie et al., 2020) has identified the 4 Listening Habits. Learn how to use cognitive listening habits with active listening to increase your coaching effectiveness. After all, when coaches listen well, they hear more, and they change more lives. What could be better than that?
Learning Objectives:

Participants will understand that listening is a habit over which individuals have control
Participants will identify their own dominant listening habits and listening blind spots
Participants will practice one to two verbal listening strategies to create shared meaning

In this webinar Participants will:

View listening in a whole new light
Self assess their dominant listening habit and have a better idea as to why they “mesh” better with some clients than others
See listening as a strategy, backed by science, and not just a skill

Speaker:
Laura Janusik, PhD, MBA, MA: On a scale of 1 to 10, how confident do you feel in your listening when you’re coaching? Laura Janusik, also known as Dr. Laura and DrJListen, has worked with hundreds of coaches and found that most are above average listeners, but they are amazed when they realize how much more research-based information there is to learn! So, Laura is leveraging her world-wide recognized expertise in teaching and training Listening to help coaches with research-based solutions that work. These listening solutions help coaches to Listen Well, Hear More, and Change Lives. Her PhD in Communication and MBA and over 20 years as a leading listening researcher and professor help coaches better help their clients. So, sit back, listen well, and learn how you can listen to your clients better!
Laura’s published nationally and internationally and has been cited in Forbes, Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, and US News and World Report, among others. Laura’s background includes 15 years of HR Management in private industry and 20+ years of academic experience as a professor, scholar, speaker and trainer. She’s the past president of the International Listening Association. Finally, her 12-hour course, Listening for Coaches: The Beginner’s Series, is accredited by ICF for CCE’s, and it’s geared for all levels of coaches so they can Listen Well, Hear More, and Change Lives.
Registration:
ICF Pittsburgh Member/Affiliate/Premier – $0
ICF Global Affiliate Chapters – $15
Non-members – $25
Recording only – $25

Returning Citizen Ex-Offenders: Coaching Members of Vulnerable Populations
2022-07-12 12:00 - 13:30 | ICF Pittsburgh Webinar
and Tuesday, July 26, 2022
by Talib Shakir, ACC

CCEs: 3.00 (2.25 Core/ 0.75 Resource)

(Must attend both sessions to receive cces)
(One registration covers both sessions)
In Coaching Tips and Advice for Returning Citizen Advocates, Talib Shakir writes:
“Needs tend to drive us until we understand how to drive them. Until then, we will remain stuck. Coaching helps men and women who have been incarcerated tap into their potential and possibilities. It helps show the direct correlation between needs and values. An underlying value can create a driving need. When that need is not met, it will be held as a value.”
This workshop is for coaches wanting to work with people from vulnerable populations. Using Shakir’s book and lived experience as the foundation, coaches will strengthen their capacity for curiosity and compassion not only for people returning from incarceration but also for members of any vulnerable group.
In this webinar, participants will learn:

How to recognize the humanity of people returning from incarceration.
Communication skills for working with this population.
How effective, sensitive communication is important—and what happens when these skills come together.
How to recognize that vulnerability is everywhere and see the vulnerability in others.

Participants will be able to:

Cultivate their curiosity and ability to listen actively and well.
Create safe coaching spaces for members of vulnerable populations.
Deepen their capacity for empathy for members of vulnerable populations.

Speaker:
Talib Shakir, ACC is a trained life coach with a focus on leadership, wellness, and reentry. His work includes working with community leaders and college professors, in addressing anti-social behaviors and reentry needs. He received his training through the Institute for Life Coach Training (ILTC).
REGISTRATION:
ICF Pittsburgh Member/Affiliate/Premier – $0
ICF Global Affiliate Chapters – $15
Non-members – $25
Recording only – $25

The Coach as Speaker
2022-06-01 12:00 - 13:30 | ICF Pittsburgh Webinar
How to Create a Masterful Speaking Presence
CCEs: 1.5 (0.75 core/ 0.75 resource)
Speaking to groups is the number one way to build a coaching practice, but only if who you’re being in front of the room is as present, authentic, and sincere as when you’re interacting with clients. But, what’s the key to making it happen?
Never stop being a coach! Apply the same core competencies to speaking as you do to your coaching. Create a safe and supportive environment in your room that honors your audience’s agenda. When you’re open and flexible in the moment, you create a dynamic synergy with your audience.
In this highly interactive and thought-provoking presentation, you will learn:

How to manifest a presence that’s warm and genuine while being profoundly audience-focused and intensely purposeful.
How the message you send goes beyond the words you speak.
What goes into creating a compelling, interactive presentation that evokes insight and encourages people to expand their thinking.
How to provide masterful coaching as you engage audience members.
How to make an offer from the stage that speaks to the needs of your audience members and lands like an opportunity for further exploration and growth … and how to stay unattached as you do it!

The bottom line: Talking with a client in a coaching setting is very much like speaking to a group of people you don’t know … if you approach it the right way.
Denise Hedges, PCC is a business development coach and speaking coach with over 30 years’ experience in sales and marketing. She specializes in training and coaching business owners to market themselves more effectively using the strategy of speaking. Denise works with coaches to help them move past any uncertainty or fear they have about sales and marketing, so they can attract more clients, make more money, and make a real difference in the lives of more people! She trains personal and business coaches all over the world! Visit her website at: http://www.DeniseHedges.com
Registration:
ICF Pittsburgh Member/Affiliate/Premier – $0
ICF Global Affiliate Chapters – $15
Non-members – $25
Recording only – $25

“What’s In a Name?” a Persad Center presentation delivered by Ted Hoover
2022-05-03 18:30 - 20:00 | ICF Pittsburgh Webinar
CCEs – 1.5 (0.5 core/1.0 resource)

“What’s In a Name?” − Questioning? Non-Binary? Asexual? Two Spirt? Cisgender? Thanks to increasing visibility and acceptance, and the always-increasing speed of social media, every day we’re being introduced to more and more letters, words and phrases being introduced into the LGBTQ+ community.
“What’s In a Name?” is an awareness program presented by Persad Center designed to shed some light and navigate a path through this forest of language. The 45-minute program examines the specific meaning of letters in the LGBTQ+ “alphabet soup” with a discussion of how the evolution of the letters mirrors the history of the movement.
“What’s In a Name?” also looks at some of the most recent terms used in the trans and non-binary communities and how that language is helping us to move beyond the transphobic and outdated attitudes from the past.
In this webinar we will:

Examine the specific meaning of letters in the LGBTQ+ community.
Explore how the evolution of the letters mirrors the history of the movement.
Review some of the most recent terms used in the trans and non-binary communities. and how that language is helping us to move beyond the transphobic and outdated attitudes from the past.

In this webinar participants will:

gain a greater understanding of the meaning and use of letters and pronouns used by the LGBTQ+ community.
develop an appreciation for this language is helping us to move beyond the transphobic and outdated attitudes from the past.
be able to reflect on their own experiences and perceptions regarding the LGBT+ community.

Speaker:
Ted Hoover is an Educator/Trainer who works at the Persad Center, the nation’s second oldest behavioral health and wellness center working with the LGBTQ+ and HIV/AIDS community. Ted has previously worked with PA Bureau of Family Health on such issues as LGBTQ+ youth suicide prevention, adolescent sexual health and creating safe work/education environments across the Commonwealth. Additionally, he focuses on issues of discrimination, hate crime and human trafficking with area law enforcement and the Civil Rights Division of the FBI.
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